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Kim Yo-jong
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North Korean politician and diplomat, sister of Kim Jong Un
Kim Yo-jong is a senior North Korean politician and diplomat who serves as the sister of Kim Jong Un, the country's leader. She matters because she holds significant influence in North Korea's government and has become a public face of the regime in diplomatic dealings with other countries.
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- Instance of
- human
- Family name
- Kim
- Gender
- female
- Citizenship
- North Korea
- Place of birth
- Pyongyang
- Father
- Kim Jong-il
- Mother
- Ko Yong-hui
- Sibling
- Kim Jong Un
- Occupation
- diplomat
- Educated at
- Kim Il-sung Military University
- Political party
- Workers’ Party of Korea
- Languages spoken
- Korean
- Native language
- Korean
- Religion
- atheism
- Family
- Kim family
- Field of work
- politics
- Image
- Secretary Pompeo Receives Photos from Kim Yo Jong in Pyongyang (44240182715) (cropped 2).jpg
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- date of birth
- 1987-09-26
- McCune–Reischauer romanization
- Kim Yŏjŏng
- Revised Romanization
- Gim Yeojeong
- Commons category
- Kim Yo-jong
- name in kana
- きん よせい
- name in native language
- 김여정
- name
- 金與正
- P10632
- Kim Yo-jong
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Encyclopedic overview
Kim Yo Jong (Korean: 김여정; born 26 September 1987) is a North Korean politician and diplomat, and sister of WPK General Secretary Kim Jong Un. As of February 2026 she is the director of the General Affairs Department of the Workers' Party of Korea (WPK). This high-level appointment occurred during the first plenary meeting of the 9th Central Committee, held alongside the Ninth Party Congress in Pyongyang. Since March 2026, she has also been serving as an alternate member of the Politburo of the Workers' Party of Korea. Between September 2021 and March 2026, she was a member of State Affairs Commission of North Korea.
She served as an alternate member of the Politburo of the Workers' Party of Korea from 2017 to 2019, and again from 2020 to 2021. Kim is the youngest child of North Korea's second supreme leader Kim Jong Il and the younger sister of Kim Jong Un, the current supreme leader and WPK General Secretary.
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